 | High schools - 1926 - 408 pages
...must aspire to affect. Mark Twain once quoted with approval this sentence attributed to Disraeli : "There are three kinds of lies, — lies, damned lies, and statistics." I shall not weary you, therefore, with statistics; but I would like to state the results of an inquiry... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1947 - 990 pages
...manufacturers of textile designs. But I recall what Benjamin Disraeli once said about statistics. He with the The more I have seen statistics presented without any explanation or investigation of what intrinsically... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1948 - 128 pages
...manufacturers of textile designs. But I recall what Benjamin Disraeli once said about statistics. He said there are three kinds of lies : Lies, damned lies, and statistics. The more I have seen statistics presented without any explanation or investigation of what intrinsically... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Merchant Marine and Fisheries - 1951 - 584 pages
...small fishing vessels. They were not working vessels. The CHAIRMAN. Was it Disraeli or Gladstone who said: "There are three kinds of lies ; lies, damned lies and statistics." Mr. JORDAN. Of course. I am sorry, Mr. Allen. I would like for you to have the benefit of these statistics... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services - 1953 - 888 pages
...always to a degree difficult to substantiate. Physical actions are more simple. I think Mark Twain said there are three kinds of lies : Lies, damned lies, and statistics. So you have a real problem when one refers purely to statistics. In January to June , overall, the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs - 1973 - 1554 pages
...seeing good rural housing than I am, but you made the statement to the effect that you were getting a great deal more housing in urban areas, and I am talking...what that says, except confuses the issue. Senator McGovERx. I do think it is important to clarify the chairman's point here, and I think Senator Abourezk... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Rules and Administration Committee - 1973 - 664 pages
...warrant us listening to, if we do not know as much about it as we say. I guess it was Disraeli who once said, there are three kinds of lies; lies, damned lies, and statistics. And we have heard, I think, some of the third kind of lie today — and on previous occasions. I have... | |
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Disraeli once said there are three kinds of lies: lies; damned lies; and statistics. 
